Assignment to Hell

The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling...

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Release Date: 05/03/2013
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: N/A
Language: English
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Educational, History
Author: Timothy M. Gay
Read by: Walter Dixon
Duration: 1004 minutes
Run Time: 1004 minutes
Language: English
Language: English
13 Audio CD(s) - 9781520020365
2 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781520020372

Assignment to Hell

The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling...

By Timothy M. Gay

Genre: Educational, History

Audio CD

08/23/2016

13 Audio CD

1004 minutes

9781520020365

Audio MP3 CD

08/23/2016

2 Audio MP3 CD

1004 minutes

9781520020372

Description:

In February 1943, a group of journalists-including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney-clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Cronkite if he'd thought through a lede. I think I'm going to say, mused Cronkite, that I've just returned from an assignment to hell. Assignment to Hell tells the powerful and poignant story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters.

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Tim Gay brilliantly tells the tale of five of the greatest reporters of World War II chasing the biggest story of their lives, filing the first draft of history with their newspapers while writing letters home to wives and girlfriends with the first version of lifelong family lore., Chip Cronkite, , Son of Walter Cronkite

The stories are so vivid and alive all these years later that I felt I was there with the legendary correspondents of World War II as they wrote their way from France to Germany., David Maraniss, , Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

A sprightly synthesis of literature and history...unique [and] engaging., Kirkus

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